James Baker

The 20 episodes of Momentos Musicales this season are giving us opportunity to track music and musicians from throughout Pan America as they come

When the Peruvian musician and conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya was hired as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) in the year 2000, it meant a big change for that orchestra.

On today's episode of Momentos Musicales we hear from Allison and Carlos Franzetti, two pianists, one who plays pretty much what's on the page, the

James Baker examines the UK’s National Centre for Information Defence and why hostile-state disinformation has made trust a security priority.

The thread running through this sixth season of Momentos Musicales, as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, has been to do with how music and

Dust off your passports and cross into Mexico, Central and South America. Not only can you hear great music from the Americas music live, on the streets and in venues both grand and small, but you learn a lot about the varied cultures within Pan America.

African and Caribbean elements met with European music as early as the mid 1800s.

Eugenio Toussaint, Arturo Sandoval, and Paquito D'Rivera each have a musical personality of their own, yet there are similarities. James Baker shares some of their best music, and the composers' backgrounds, in this episode of Momentos Musicales.

TPR's James Baker recalls hearing the mix of sounds while living and working in Mexico City in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In this episode of Momentos Musicales, host James Baker traces the history of the tango from the mid 19th century to Astor Piazzolla in 1987.